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Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries..

Strein :: Streighten (v. t.) See Straiten.

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..

Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.

Strake :: Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.

Straitness :: Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..

Strelitz :: Streite (adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.

Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.

Straitly :: Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

Straight-out :: Straightness (n.) A variant of Straitness.

Straitening :: Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straite.

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait..

Strait :: Strait (a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.

Willywaw :: Willywaw (n.) A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan..

Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..

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